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Cohere models

Cohere is an AI company founded in Toronto in 2019 that builds foundation models and AI products for businesses. It offers its Command text-generation models and its Embed and Rerank models on its own platform and through cloud providers, and launched the North workplace platform in 2025. Its research lab, Cohere Labs, develops the open-weight Aya multilingual models.

Chronology

  1. 2026

    2 models
    1. Released
      Command A family · Language, Multimodal, Reasoning Command A+

      Command A+ is Cohere's first mixture-of-experts model, with 218B total and 25B active parameters, released on 20 May 2026 as open weights under Apache 2.0 and through the Cohere API. Cohere calls it…

      • Sparse mixture-of-experts design with 218B total and 25B active parameters, where Command A Reasoning is a dense 111B model.
      • Adds image input to a general Command A model; Command A accepts text only.
      Primary source Available · 1 news item
    2. Released
      Aya · Language Tiny Aya

      Tiny Aya is a family of five 3.35B-parameter multilingual text models from Cohere Labs, Cohere's research arm, released on 17 February 2026 as open weights for non-commercial use; the four…

      • Supports 70 languages, against 23 for Aya Expanse; Cohere names no predecessor, so this is a comparison only.
      • 3.35B parameters, against 8B and 32B for the two Aya Expanse models.
      Primary source Available · 1 news item

  2. 2025

    6 models
    1. Released
      Command A family · Language Command A Translate

      Command A Translate is Cohere's first machine translation model, a 111B-parameter model in the Command A family for translation between 23 languages. It was released on 28 August 2025 on the Cohere…

      • Specialised for machine translation between 23 languages rather than general chat, agent and RAG use.
      • Context of 8K input tokens plus 8K output, against 256K for Command A.
      Primary source Available · 1 news item
    2. Released
      Command A family · Language, Reasoning Command A Reasoning

      Command A Reasoning is Cohere's first reasoning model, a 111B-parameter text model in the Command A family released on 21 August 2025 on the Cohere platform, with open weights for non-commercial…

      • Adds an optional thinking step before the answer that can be switched off, with a token budget to control compute.
      • Maximum output rises to 32K tokens, from 8K for Command A.
      Primary source Available · 1 news item
    3. Released
      Command A family · Language, Multimodal Command A Vision

      Command A Vision is a 112B-parameter model in Cohere's Command A family that reads images alongside text and answers in text, released on 31 July 2025 on the Cohere API with open weights for…

      • Adds image input next to text, up to 20 images per request; Command A accepts text only.
      • Context window of 128K tokens, against 256K for Command A.
      Primary source Available · no news linked
    4. Released
      Command A family · Language · Milestone Command A

      Command A is an enterprise-focused language model in Cohere's Command family with 111 billion parameters and a 256K-token context window, offered on the Cohere API and as research-use open weights…

      • Context window doubles to 256K tokens, from 128K for Command R+ 08-2024.
      • Cohere reports 150 percent higher throughput than Command R+ 08-2024 and says the model needs only two A100 or H100 GPUs.
      Primary source Available · no news linked
    5. Released
      Aya · Language, Multimodal Aya Vision

      Aya Vision is a multilingual vision-language model from Cohere For AI (now Cohere Labs) that takes text and images and produces text in 23 languages, released in 8B and 32B sizes as open weights, on…

      • Adds image input: Aya Vision accepts text and images, while Aya Expanse takes text only.
      Primary source Available · no news linked
    6. Released
      Command R series · Language Command R7B Arabic

      Command R7B Arabic is a version of Cohere's Command R7B optimised for Modern Standard Arabic and English and aimed at enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa, released on the Cohere platform…

      • Cohere says it improves on Command R7B in all Arabic language dimensions, with no regression in the languages Command R7B already supported.
      Primary source Available · no news linked

  3. 2024

    8 models
    1. Released
      Command R series · Language Command R7B

      Command R7B is an open-weights language model with 7 billion parameters that Cohere presents as the final model of its R series, offered on the Cohere API and as a research release on Hugging Face…

      Primary source Available · no news linked
    2. Released
      Aya · Language · Milestone Aya Expanse

      Aya Expanse is a family of multilingual open-weights language models from Cohere For AI, Cohere's research arm (now Cohere Labs), released in 8B and 32B sizes and aimed at 23 languages. The weights…

      • Trained with a new recipe that Cohere says combines data arbitrage for synthetic multilingual data, multilingual preference training and model merging.
      • The 32B model has a 128K-token context window, against 8,192 tokens for Aya 23 35B; the 8B model has 8K.
      Primary source Available · 1 news item
    3. Released
      Command R series · Language Command R 08-2024

      Command R 08-2024 is Cohere's August 2024 update of Command R, a text-only language model with a 128k-token context, released on 30 August 2024 on the Cohere API, Amazon SageMaker and Oracle OCI and…

      • Cohere reports around 50 percent higher throughput and 20 percent lower latency, while needing half the hardware to serve it.
      • Adds Safety Modes in beta, letting developers choose a strict or contextual mode or opt out.
      Primary source Available · no news linked
    4. Released
      Command R series · Language Command R+ 08-2024

      Command R+ 08-2024 is Cohere's August 2024 update of Command R+, a text-only language model with a 128k-token context, released on 30 August 2024 with the updated Command R on the Cohere API, Amazon…

      • Cohere reports roughly 50 percent higher throughput and 25 percent lower latency on the same hardware footprint.
      • Adds Safety Modes in beta, with a strict or a contextual mode.
      Primary source Available · no news linked
    5. Released
      Aya · Language · Milestone Aya 23

      Aya 23 is a family of multilingual open-weights language models from Cohere For AI, released on 23 May 2024 in 8-billion and 35-billion-parameter sizes under CC-BY-NC. The text-only models cover 23…

      • Covers 23 languages instead of 101, which Cohere presents as a shift from breadth to depth.
      • Weights licensed CC-BY-NC, whereas Aya 101 was released under Apache 2.0.
      Primary source Available · no news linked
    6. Released
      Command R series · Language Command R+

      Command R+ is a text-only language model in Cohere's R series for enterprise use, launched on 4 April 2024 on Microsoft Azure and the Cohere API as the larger companion to Command R. It shares the…

      • Adds multi-step tool use: the model combines several tools over several steps and can retry after a failed tool call.
      • 104 billion parameters; the model card calls Command R its smaller companion model.
      Primary source Deprecated · no news linked
    7. Released
      Command R series · Language · Milestone Command R

      Command R is a text-only language model in Cohere's R series, launched on 11 March 2024 for large-scale production use, with a 128k-token context, retrieval-augmented generation with citations, tool…

      • Supports a context of up to 128k tokens, which Cohere presented as a longer context window.
      • Can use tools such as APIs, code interpreters and user-defined tools, and gives grounded RAG answers with citations.
      Primary source Deprecated · no news linked
    8. Released
      Aya · Language · Milestone Aya 101

      Aya 101 is a multilingual language model from Cohere For AI, Cohere's non-profit research lab, released on 13 February 2024 as open weights under Apache 2.0 and covering 101 languages. The…

      Primary source Available · no news linked

  4. 2023

    1 model
    1. Released
      Command · Language Command Light

      Command Light is the smaller variant of Cohere's Command, a text-only language model with a 4k-token context that Cohere describes as faster and almost as capable. It first appeared on 17 January…

      • Cohere describes it as a smaller, faster version of Command that is almost as capable, and recommended it for developers who need fast responses.
      Primary source Deprecated · no news linked

  5. 2022

    1 model
    1. Released
      Command · Language · Milestone Command

      Command is the first model in Cohere's Command line: a text-only language model released in beta on 8 November 2022, which Cohere conditioned to respond well to single-statement commands. It was…

      Primary source Deprecated · no news linked

Lineage

  1. Command
    Variants and derived
    Command Light · variant
  2. Command Light
    Based on
    Command · variant
  3. Aya 101
    Successors
    Aya 23
  4. Command R
    Predecessors
    Command
    Variants and derived
    Command R 08-2024 · revision
  5. Command R+
    Predecessors
    Command
    Variants and derived
    Command R+ 08-2024 · revision
  6. Aya 23
    Predecessors
    Aya 101
    Successors
    Aya Expanse
  7. Command R 08-2024
    Based on
    Command R · revision
  8. Command R+ 08-2024
    Successors
    Command A
    Based on
    Command R+ · revision
  9. Aya Expanse
    Predecessors
    Aya 23
    Variants and derived
    Aya Vision · derived: other
  10. Command R7B
    Variants and derived
    Aya Vision · derived: other; Command R7B Arabic · variant
  11. Command R7B Arabic
    Based on
    Command R7B · variant
  12. Aya Vision
    Based on
    Aya Expanse · derived: other; Command R7B · derived: other
  13. Command A
    Predecessors
    Command R+ 08-2024
    Successors
    Command A+
    Variants and derived
    Command A Reasoning · derived: fine tune; Command A Translate · derived: fine tune; Command A Vision · derived: fine tune
  14. Command A Vision
    Based on
    Command A · derived: fine tune
  15. Command A Reasoning
    Based on
    Command A · derived: fine tune
  16. Command A Translate
    Based on
    Command A · derived: fine tune
  17. Tiny Aya

    No recorded relations.

  18. Command A+
    Predecessors
    Command A

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About the organisation

  • Description Cohere is an AI company founded in Toronto in 2019 that builds foundation models and AI products for businesses. It offers its Command text-generation models and its Embed and Rerank models on its own platform and through cloud providers, and launched the North workplace platform in 2025. Its research lab, Cohere Labs, develops the open-weight Aya multilingual models. Primary source[1] [2] [3] [4]

Company · https://cohere.com · 18 models listed here

Sources

  1. [1] About Our Company

    Other · Cohere

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    Original ↗ https://cohere.com/about HTML title About Our Company | Cohere; page heading Where enterprise AI meets real-world purpose. Living page, content as seen on 2026-10-01 (founding 2019 in Toronto, founders, Cohere Labs 2022, North 2025, offices).

  2. [2] An Overview of Cohere's Models

    Documentation · Cohere

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    Original ↗ https://docs.cohere.com/docs/models Living documentation page; content as seen on 2026-10-01. Lists model ids with status (Live, Deprecated, Retired), modality, context length and maximum output tokens, plus a table of ids on cloud platforms. May duplicate a source added by another Cohere chunk.

  3. [3] Research

    Other · Cohere

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    Original ↗ https://cohere.com/research HTML title Research | Cohere Labs. States that the lab started as Cohere For AI in June 2022 and was renamed Cohere Labs in April 2025.

  4. [4] Aya

    Other · Cohere

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    Original ↗ https://cohere.com/research/aya HTML title Aya | Cohere Labs. Lists Tiny Aya (Global, Earth, Fire, Water), Aya Vision (8B, 32B), Aya Expanse (8B, 32B) and Aya 101; links research posts on open-weight multilingual releases.